Whether you're a fan of games or just shopping for one, dozens of titles make perfect gifts. Be sure the game is appropriate; read the age rating on the box E for everyone (ages 6 and up); E10+ (10 and up); T for teen (13 and up); M for Mature (17 and up). Marc Saltzman spotlights top titles:

The 12th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 the world's largest video gaming convention held each May in Los Angeles once again served as a glimpse into the future of the multibillion-dollar interactive entertainment industry.

There's best and there's worst and then there's the astounding and the appalling. In short, just your typical year in television. USA TODAY television critic Robert Bianco sorts through 2005's programming in search of treasures and trash.

The 2005 World Series went into the record books as the least-watched in history, with 17.2 million viewers for the Chicago White Sox's four-game shutout of the Houston Astros. That was down 32% from last year's four-game Red Sox-Cardinals matchup.

For schlock-horror, the third time's the charm at CBS. The network's first attempt, Spring Break Shark Attack, had too much soap and too little shark. The second, Locusts, suffered from some buggy monsters that would only be terrifying to an amber wave of grain. But homicidal, mutant vampire bats? I am so there.

When will crime stop paying? That question was on the minds of TV critics gathered here Tuesday as CBS home to nine shows about crimes, the detectives who solve them and the lawyers who prosecute them opened the major-network portion of the semiannual television critics meetings.

Battlestar Galactica may get the headlines, but Sci Fi Channel's slate of original movies has revived the cheesy 1950s B-movie genre and won strong ratings with such campy titles as Mansquito (half man, half mosquito, and buzzing back Saturday at 7 p.m. ET/PT) and Larva, in which mad cow disease leads a creature to emerge from hamburger meat.